The Revenue arising from the Articles under the first Head as it is grounded on Laws annually a plication of passed, (except the Duty on Goods sold at Auction granted for three years) is appropriated the Revenue, foy annual Laws towards payment of the salaries of the Officers of Government and other necessary Expenses for the Public Service enumerated in such Laws.

And the Interest Money arising from the Loan above mentioned, which is the Second Branch of Revenue, is annually applied in furnishing necessaries

for His Majesty's

Troops quartered in this

Colony, for which there is usually granted £2000 Currency, and the Residue is occasionally applied to the

payment of Debts contracted by the Province, such as repairs to the Fort & Batteries, the

Governor's House, the making of gun carriages &c.

A Third Branch of the Revenue is the Excise on spirituous Liquors.

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GOV. TRYOJNTS REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF KEW-YORK.

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By a Law passed the 8 th of March 1 773 This Fund is appropriated for Twenty Years as follows The sum of £800 (part of £1000 to be raised by the Excise in the City and County of New Particular A P York) is to be paid Annually for Twenty years to the Governors of the Hospital now erectihe Excisemij n g j n t ne c ity of New York for the support of that Institution, and the remaining sum of £200 is for the First Five years to be paid to the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, .